Posted on 07/21/2022 8:41:05 AM PDT by Starman417
You have to hand to the Biden regime. Once they seize upon a theme, they stick with it, logical or not. This unserious regime believes that it is better for the environment for someone else to drill oil halfway around the planet, diesel-truck it to ships, sail those diesel-powered ships around the world to US ports and diesel-truck it to refineries. Somehow, that has less impact on world climate than does drilling for it here and sending it to refineries through clean pipelines.
They're applying that same logic to electric vehicles. As long as you don't see where it all comes from and don't know the facts, it will save the world. Got it?
Just go buy an electric car, says little Petey Buttigieg, channeling his masochistic/sadistic side. Pain is good.
Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was once again blasted for pushing for electric vehicles on Tuesday, this time for saying, "The more pain" Americans feel at the pump, "the more benefit there is for" EV owners.What is the average cost of an electric vehicle? About $51,000. Everyone can afford that, right? Were Buttigieg Secretary of HUD he'd be saying to homeless people "Just go buy a house."
How much oil is there in electric vehicles? There is about 775 pounds of oil in the form of petrochemicals, i.e., plastics and polymers.
How much fossil fuel does it take to recharge an electric car? It takes about 70 pounds of coal or 8 gallons of oil. An EV still emits about 40% of the CO2 of a typical ICE (internal combustion engine).
What is the cost of installing a charging station? Between $2000 and $10,000, depending on whether you install a Level 1 (120V) or Level 2 (240V), Level 3 station (fast charging). Level 3 chargers are not compatible with all EV's.
What is the average range of an EV? About 200 miles.
How long does it take to charge an EV? Between 1 and 31 hours. Car and Driver:
Recharging an EV battery with a 120-volt source—these are categorized as Level 1 according to SAE J1772, a standard that engineers use to design EVs—is measured in days, not hours.And that Level 3 charger? The really fast one?If you own, or plan to own, an EV you’ll be wise to consider having a Level 2—240 volts, minimum—charging solution installed in your home. A typical Level 2 connection is 240 volts and 40 amps.
When the vehicle battery's SoC is below 20 percent or above 80 percent, a DC fast charger's charging rate slows considerably; this optimizes battery life and limits the risk of overcharging. This is why, for example, manufacturers often claim that fast-charging will get you to “80 percent in 30 minutes.”Still thinking about that long road trip? Best not get caught in a snowstorm as was seen in DC last winter. Sen. Tim Kaine was stuck for 27 hours. Fortunately for him he was driving an ICE. An EV would have become a monument.That last 20 percent may double the time you're hooked up to the fast charger. The time-consuming affair of completely filling the battery via a DC charger makes them best utilized on those days when you have anxiety about exceeding the range of your car, or when you are traveling and need to fill-up to reach your destination.
THE fastest time to recharge is 30 minutes, and that's not to full capacity. That means you are standing for at least 30 minutes at a time to recharge. Then you have to consider the queue. Imagine four or five EV's ahead of you each requiring an hour to recharge. Biden said he was going to place a charging station every 50 miles on interstates. Given how long it takes to charge an EV these stations will make for rich target environment for assaults and robberies.
And the big one- can the electrical grid handle all this? The short answer is no but in two parts. First, the bad
But even if the total number of EVs in the US remains low, a high concentration of adoption in specific neighborhoods can "significantly increase the peak demand seen by distribution transformers" and can "require upgrades to the electricity distribution infrastructure," the paper notes.And the worse:The problem compounds when residential drivers use Level 2 (240 volt) charging to fill up their cars. Although Level 2 charging is faster than Level 1 (120 volt) charging (which means cars won't need to be plugged in for as long), the power demand slope for Level 2 charging is steeper.
Muratori simulated the changes in electrical demand using data from the US Department of Energy's Residential Energy Consumption Survey. He selected 200 representative houses with 348 passenger vehicles in the Midwest. In aggregate, increased electricity demand was sustainable up to 25-percent EV penetration, as long as you were only counting in terms of kilowatt hours of electricity consumed and assumed all charging was happening at night.One EV with a Level 2 charger is the max load for the average street. One.But when Muratori studied more local scenarios, heavy demand was more concerning. The researcher simulated "a residential distribution transformer connected to six households" with 11 vehicles total. The transformer could handle up to six electric cars charging with Level 1 charging, but the simulated transformer saw demand in excess of its nominal capacity as soon as one EV with Level 2 charging was added to the neighborhood.
While electrical transformers are built to withstand such temporary surges in electrical demand, Muratori cites research that shows the expected life of transformer equipment can decrease "by two orders of magnitude when a transformer hits '50 percent above its nominal capacity.'" While you wouldn't necessarily have a blown-fuse scenario, the research shows that utilities may soon face a choice of either upgrading the equipment or having to replace existing hardware more often.
From where is the electricity for all these vehicles coming? For charging stations: 40% natural gas, 19% coal, wind 8%, hydro 75 and nuclear 20%.
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
“As long as you don’t see where it all comes from and don’t know the facts, it will save the world. Got it?”
Yep, you just plug them in to the little wall thingie. No pollution at all!
Buttplug's also got his ears plugged.
I have preached this with these facts for the last few years. The great disappointment is most dismiss these facts as myths, they make no attempt to see how bad this EV scenario really is. It is just to abstract for most IMO.
I couple this with the fact I have been in the energy generation and distribution business for 40 years (Nuclear Power) and still they can not process these facts and accept the obvious conclusions stemming from them as I present the data. The worst of the lot dismiss me out of hand as biased.
He’s just another pet show pony. The homosexuals and POC are little show pets for the democrats or like a Pokémon collection. Abilities are not important.
“Still thinking about that long road trip? Best not get caught in a snowstorm...”
I witnessed this last winter in Chicago on a below-zero day. Saw an idiot with an EV that wouldn’t start because the battery was frozen. Now in a normal car, you can just get a jumpstart and let the engine warm the car up so the battery thaws out.
In this case, the roadside assistance had to send out a car with a giant battery taking up the entire rear of the vehicle so this car could power the EV until its battery thawed out. Imagine having to do that every morning that it’s below zero if you don’t have a garage!
yep...wind turbines kill millions of birds each year...no one cares.
“... send out a car with a giant battery taking up the entire rear of the vehicle so this car could power the EV”
You’re saying that an EV can be jumper-charged with another battery? Is the jumper battery plugged into the EV’s charging socket?
Haven’t head of this scheme but seems simpler for the rescue vehicle to just bring an AC generator. In any event the rescue vehicle will be there for a few hours.
Perhaps just tow the EV to the nearest charging station.
It’s a disaster in the making, and the administration is fully aware of that, and is actively working to make the disaster happen.
“Bootyjudge,” what an appropriate name.
5.56mm
I think we all know what Buttplug likes to do with batteries 🤪
Bookmarked. Thank you.
“You’re saying that an EV can be jumper-charged with another battery?”
Well, I didn’t stop to ask them the details of the whole operation. It was most definitely a giant battery in the back of that vehicle though, not a generator.
Example of charging electric cars in your neighborhood : )
A Christmas Story
Well, That’s just one plug too many.
https://youtu.be/PzhnzQwfJZA?t=156
The question is, how can Biden best use the situation for personal gain. It would be very risky to ask local companies for a kickback. But, he has no problem asking any foreign government for a kickback. And, foreign governments are used to “baksheesh” or kickbacks. It’s not only not illegal, it’s expected. (I don’t know why the definition below limits the areas where the word is used. My Israeli friends and numerous Arabs I’ve known from various countries have all used the word.)
bak·sheesh
[bakˈSHēSH]
NOUN
(in parts of Asia and North Africa) a small sum of money given as a tip, bribe, or charitable donation:
Butt-fudge wouldn’t have a clue what those are. He was playing with Barbie.......errrr, Ken.
So then are GI Joe's in out out? (of the closet...)
/NS (nauseating sarcasm)
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